SmallBiz Refresh: : 6 Mobile Payment Solutions for Small Businesses

Are you using mobile payments yet? If you are, you are right on trend. By the time 2017 hits, we will be buying $1 billion worth of goods and services around the world via mobile devices, according to IDC Financial Insights. If you haven’t taken the plunge yet, here are 6 mobile payment solutions to consider: Chirpify This forward-thinking social commerce and payments platform lets customers buy from you in-stream on Instagram and Twitter. Just embed your listing, and all your customers have to do is reply (on Twitter) or comment (on Instagram) with “buy” – no linking, shopping carts or checkout process. Cost: 5% per transaction Groupon Payments Disclosure: I am a blogger for GrouponWorks. Groupon just launched their own mobile payment solution, which pairs up their Groupon Merchants app with a card reader attachment. Besides accepting credit card payments, the app lets yo...